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Asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their own academic areas of interest, are experienced scholars and classroom teachers.Read more...

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"These essays began as conference papers for the joint Northwest and California meeting of the WHA affiliates, which was held in Berkeley in February 2014"--Acknowledgments.Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ix- 191 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Contents:

World historians and the future of academic history : a research manifesto / Alan Karras ; Making porous and expansive boundaries : Jerry Bentley, world history, and global publics / Trevor R. Getz ; Teaching world history in a swirl of standards / Merry Wiesner-Hanks ; Encounters within Europe : foreign travelers' descriptions of slaves and slavery in Iberia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / William D. Phillips, Jr. ; The sixteenth century world war and the roots of the modern world : a view from the edge / Edmund Burke III ; Who owns the fish in the sea? : the dukes of Medina Sidonia and Spain's tuna fisheries / Carla Rahn Phillips ; Eating the world : the iguana's tale of Caribbean ecology and culinary history / Candice Goucher ; Shaken or stirred? : recreating makgeolli for the twenty-first century / Theodore Jun Yoo ; Explanations of species extinction in nineteenth-century China and Europe / Robert B. Marks ; Shadows of sovereignty : legal encounters and the politics of protection in the Atlantic world / Lauren Benton ; The promise of ; and the threats to ; historical linguistics as a complement of Bentleyan world history / Martin W. Lewis ; Close encounters of the methodological kind : contending with Enlightenment legacies in world history / Laura J. Mitchell.

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Jerry H. Bentley was a scholar, and a person, of broad reach, who one way or another touched literally thousands of colleagues and students. Through his editorship of the Journal of World History, his scholarly writings, and his textbook, he became the single most influential figure in Anglophone world history of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.--J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University Encounters Old and New in World History offers a diverse array of meditations, manifestos, and case-studies in world history, all inspired by or in some way responding to the work of Jerry H. Bentley. In style and content, the essays range from personal reflection to synthesis to primary research, but gratitude for Bentley's energy and spirit as the prime mover of this field animates and unifies the whole collection.--Karen Wigen, Stanford UniversityRead more...